Egg Drop

On competition day, our container worked and the egg did not crack. However, the box did not land on the right side but the egg still did not crack from the five meter fall. When building our container, the restriction we found the hardest to work around was the size limitation. It was tempting to make the container larger in order to add more padding to help cushion the egg.

The most effective part of the design was the smaller box inside the larger box. We did this because when the outside box hits the ground, the inside box can still move a bit and cushion the impact of hitting the ground.

If we were able to change our design, we would change that the box had to land on a certain side. The egg did not break when the box landed on the right side but we did not know for sure that it would not.
If two raw eggs were to be carried by the container, we would put two of the smaller boxes inside the larger box. This would still allow for the padding and cushion but would hold two eggs instead of only one.